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A philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
The 'Hypertext Garden'
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
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A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we're used to seeing. /- Maggie Appleton
Brief History of Digital Gardens
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- Rigid hypertext structure is costly. By repeatedly inviting readers to leave the ypertext by concentrating attention and traffic on navigation centers, and by pushing content away from key pages (and traffic), rigid structure can hide a hypertext's message and distort its voice
- The shortest path is not always the best.
- Gardens are farmland that delights the senses; parks are wilderness, tamed for our enjoyment. Large hypertexts and Web sites must often contain both parks and gardens.
http://www.eastgate.com/garden/Enter.html
Six types of digital gardens
- Topography-based - Notes that can be entered from any location and leads you through a trail. Many entry points, no prescribed pathways.
- Continuous growth. Constantly revisiting old posts and cultivating them into more comprehensive notes. There is no 'final version'. Maybe a personal way of doing it is Pokemon. Post before they're fully formed and then cultivate with feedback.
- Imperfection and learning in public - They don't hide their rough edges or claim to be a permanent source of truth.
- Playful, Personal, and Experimental - unique and personal playspaces. Individualize the thinking to your trains of thought. A high fidelity insight into a person's thought.
- Intercropping and content diversity - Allowing an audio-visual cornucopia that makes the web possible. Podcasts, videos, diagrams, illustrations, interactive web animations, academic papers, tweets, rough sketches, and code snippets should all live and grow in the garden. As opposed to monocropping, sticking to one medium.
- Independent ownership - gardening is about claiming a small patch of the web for yourself. Don't join a walled garden like facebook or wordpress.
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The Garden and Stream: A technopastoral http://www.eastgate.com/garden/Enter.html Of digital streams, gardens, and campfires My blog is a digital garden, not a blog Premium mediocre